publications | Dr Fares Abawi

2025

Unified Dynamic Scanpath Predictors Outperform Individually Trained Neural Models

Fares Abawi, Di Fu, and Stefan Wermter

CoRR, 2025

@article{abawi2025usp,
  title = {{Unified Dynamic Scanpath Predictors Outperform Individually Trained Neural Models}},
  author = {Abawi, Fares and Fu, Di and Wermter, Stefan},
  journal = {CoRR},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2405.02929},
}

HRI-Free: Cognitive Robotic Simulation for Evaluating Embodied Social Attention Models

Fares Abawi, and Di Fu

In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025

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@inproceedings{abawi2025hrifree,
  title = {{HRI-Free: Cognitive Robotic Simulation for Evaluating Embodied Social Attention Models}},
  author = {Abawi, Fares and Fu, Di},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages = {11249--11255},
  year = {2025},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA55743.2025.11127539},
  final_pdf = {https://1drv.ms/b/c/68347683875c28db/EaH4ETicMrRPmWQI8gSyNLIBwVegv4zBQ-aWMvKWH_Vf2g?e=fl6L8i},
}

Balancing Long- and Short-Term Dynamics for the Modeling of Saliency in Videos

Theodor Wulff, Fares Abawi, Philipp Allgeuer, and 1 more author

CoRR, 2025

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@article{wulff2025balancing,
  title = {{Balancing Long- and Short-Term Dynamics for the Modeling of Saliency in Videos}},
  author = {Wulff, Theodor and Abawi, Fares and Allgeuer, Philipp and Wermter, Stefan},
  journal = {CoRR},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2504.05913},
}

2024

Dr. Dissertation

Multimodal Social Cue Integration for Attention Modeling and Robot Gaze Control

Fares Abawi

Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg, 2024

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@phdthesis{abawi2024multimodal,
  title = {{Multimodal Social Cue Integration for Attention Modeling and Robot Gaze Control}},
  author = {Abawi, Fares},
  year = {2024},
  school = {Fachbereich Informatik, Universit{\"a}t Hamburg},
  publisher = {Staats- und Universit{\"a}tsbibliothek Hamburg},
  urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn%3Anbn%3Ade%3Agbv%3A18-ediss-117303}
}

HRI-Free Evaluation of Embodied Social Attention Models Through Cognitive Robotic Simulation

Fares Abawi, and Stefan Wermter

IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) Workshop on Interactive AI for Human-Centered Robotics (InterHRI), 2024

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@article{abawi2024cogrobsim,
  title = {{HRI-Free Evaluation of Embodied Social Attention Models Through Cognitive Robotic Simulation}},
  author = {Abawi, Fares and Wermter, Stefan},
  journal = {IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) Workshop on Interactive AI for Human-Centered Robotics (InterHRI)},
  year = {2024},
}

Wrapyfi: A Python Wrapper for Integrating Robots, Sensors, and Applications across Multiple Middleware

Fares Abawi, Philipp Allgeuer, Di Fu, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’24), 2024

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@inproceedings{abawi2024wrapyfi,
  title = {{Wrapyfi: A Python Wrapper for Integrating Robots, Sensors, and Applications across Multiple Middleware}},
  author = {Abawi, Fares and Allgeuer, Philipp and Fu, Di and Wermter, Stefan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '24)},
  pages = {860--864},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {ACM},
  isbn = {979-8-4007-0322-5/24/03},
  doi = {10.1145/3610977.3637471},
}

Human Impression of Humanoid Robots Mirroring Social Cues

Di Fu*, Fares Abawi*, Philipp Allgeuer, and 1 more author

In Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’24 Companion), 2024

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@inproceedings{fu2024mirroring,
  title = {{Human Impression of Humanoid Robots Mirroring Social Cues}},
  author = {Fu*, Di and Abawi*, Fares and Allgeuer, Philipp and Wermter, Stefan},
  booktitle = {Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '24 Companion)},
  pages = {458--462},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {ACM},
  isbn = {979-8-4007-0323-2/24/03},
  doi = {10.1145/3610978.3640580},
}

2023

A Trained Humanoid Robot can Perform Human-Like Crossmodal Social Attention and Conflict Resolution

Di Fu, Fares Abawi, Hugo Carneiro, and 5 more authors

International Journal of Social Robotics, 2023

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@article{fu2023trained,
  title = {{A Trained Humanoid Robot can Perform Human-Like Crossmodal Social Attention and Conflict Resolution}},
  author = {Fu, Di and Abawi, Fares and Carneiro, Hugo and Kerzel, Matthias and Chen, Ziwei and Strahl, Erik and Liu, Xun and Wermter, Stefan},
  journal = {International Journal of Social Robotics},
  volume = {15},
  pages = {1325--1340},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Springer},
  doi = {10.1007/s12369-023-00993-3},
}

The Robot in the Room: Influence of Robot Facial Expressions and Gaze on Human-Human-Robot Collaboration

Di Fu, Fares Abawi, and Stefan Wermter

In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2023

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@inproceedings{fu2023robot,
  title = {{The Robot in the Room: Influence of Robot Facial Expressions and Gaze on Human-Human-Robot Collaboration}},
  author = {Fu, Di and Abawi, Fares and Wermter, Stefan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  pages = {85--91},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309334},
}

2022

Enhancing a Neurocognitive Shared Visuomotor Model for Object Identification, Localization, and Grasping With Learning From Auxiliary Tasks

Matthias Kerzel*, Fares Abawi*, Manfred Eppe, and 1 more author

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2022

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@article{kerzel2022enhancing,
  title = {{Enhancing a Neurocognitive Shared Visuomotor Model for Object Identification, Localization, and Grasping With Learning From Auxiliary Tasks}},
  author = {Kerzel*, Matthias and Abawi*, Fares and Eppe, Manfred and Wermter, Stefan},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems},
  volume = {14},
  number = {4},
  pages = {1331--1342},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/TCDS.2020.3028460},
}

Judging by the Look: The Impact of Robot Gaze Strategies on Human Cooperation

Di Fu*, Fares Abawi*, Erik Strahl, and 1 more author

IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) Workshop on Machine Learning for HRI, 2022

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@article{fu2022judging,
  title = {{Judging by the Look: The Impact of Robot Gaze Strategies on Human Cooperation}},
  author = {Fu*, Di and Abawi*, Fares and Strahl, Erik and Wermter, Stefan},
  journal = {IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) Workshop on Machine Learning for HRI},
  year = {2022},
}

2021

DRILL: Dynamic Representations for Imbalanced Lifelong Learning

Kyra Ahrens, Fares Abawi, and Stefan Wermter

In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), 2021

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@inproceedings{ahrens2021drill,
  title = {{DRILL: Dynamic Representations for Imbalanced Lifelong Learning}},
  author = {Ahrens, Kyra and Abawi, Fares and Wermter, Stefan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN)},
  volume = {12892},
  pages = {409--420},
  year = {2021},
  organization = {Springer},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-86340-1_33},
}

GASP: Gated Attention for Saliency Prediction

Fares Abawi, Tom Weber, and Stefan Wermter

In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21), 2021

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@inproceedings{abawi2021gasp,
  title = {{GASP: Gated Attention for Saliency Prediction}},
  author = {Abawi, Fares and Weber, Tom and Wermter, Stefan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21)},
  pages = {584--591},
  year = {2021},
  organization = {IJCAI Organization},
  doi = {10.24963/ijcai.2021/81},
}

2020

A Practical Three-Phase ILP Approach for Solving the Examination Timetabling Problem

Feras Al-Hawari, Mahmoud Al-Ashi, Fares Abawi, and 1 more author

International Transactions in Operational Research, 2020

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@article{alhawari2020practical,
  title = {{A Practical Three-Phase ILP Approach for Solving the Examination Timetabling Problem}},
  author = {Al-Hawari, Feras and Al-Ashi, Mahmoud and Abawi, Fares and Alouneh, Sahel},
  journal = {International Transactions in Operational Research},
  volume = {27},
  issue = {2},
  pages = {924--944},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd},
  doi = {10.1111/itor.12471},
}

Augmented Extended Train Robots [Dataset]

Fares Abawi

2020

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@misc{abawi2020augmented,
  title = {{Augmented Extended Train Robots  [Dataset]}},
  author = {Abawi, Fares},
  journal = {https://doi.org/10.34740/KAGGLE/DSV/1511904},
  year = {2020},
  doi = {10.34740/KAGGLE/DSV/1511904},
}

2019

Preserving Activations in Recurrent Neural Networks Based on Surprisal

Tayfun Alpay, Fares Abawi, and Stefan Wermter

Neurocomputing, 2019

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@article{alpay2019preserving,
  title = {{Preserving Activations in Recurrent Neural Networks Based on Surprisal}},
  author = {Alpay, Tayfun and Abawi, Fares and Wermter, Stefan},
  journal = {Neurocomputing},
  volume = {342},
  pages = {75--82},
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  doi = {10.1016/j.neucom.2018.11.092},
}

Designing a Personality-Driven Robot for a Human-Robot Interaction Scenario

Hadi Beik Mohammadi, Nikoletta Xirakia, Fares Abawi, and 11 more authors

In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019

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@inproceedings{mohammadi2019designing,
  title = {{Designing a Personality-Driven Robot for a Human-Robot Interaction Scenario}},
  author = {Mohammadi, Hadi Beik and Xirakia, Nikoletta and Abawi, Fares and Barykina, Irina and Chandran, Krishnan and Nair, Gitanjali and Nguyen, Cuong and Speck, Daniel and Alpay, Tayfun and Griffiths, Sascha and Heinrich, Stefan and Strahl, Erik and Weber, Cornelius and Wermter, Stefan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages = {4317--4324},
  year = {2019},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793770},
}

Neurocognitive Shared Visuomotor Network for End-To-End Learning of Object Identification, Localization and Grasping on a Humanoid

Matthias Kerzel, Manfred Eppe, Stefan Heinrich, and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob), 2019

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@inproceedings{kerzel2019neurocognitive,
  title = {{Neurocognitive Shared Visuomotor Network for End-To-End Learning of Object Identification, Localization and Grasping on a Humanoid}},
  author = {Kerzel, Matthias and Eppe, Manfred and Heinrich, Stefan and Abawi, Fares and Wermter, Stefan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob)},
  pages = {19--24},
  year = {2019},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/DEVLRN.2019.8850679},
}

M.Sc. Thesis

Intermediate Representations in Deep Multimodal Neural Networks

Fares Abawi

Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg, 2019

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@mastersthesis{abawi2019intermediate,
  title = {{Intermediate Representations in Deep Multimodal Neural Networks}},
  author = {Abawi, Fares},
  year = {2019},
  school = {Fachbereich Informatik, Universit{\"a}t Hamburg},
}

2018

Surprisal-Based Activation in Recurrent Neural Networks

Tayfun Alpay, Fares Abawi, and Stefan Wermter

In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN), 2018

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@inproceedings{alpay2018surprisal,
  title = {{Surprisal-Based Activation in Recurrent Neural Networks}},
  author = {Alpay, Tayfun and Abawi, Fares and Wermter, Stefan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN)},
  pages = {597--602},
  year = {2018},
  isbn = {978-287587047-6},
}

An Analysis of Subtask-Dependency in Robot Command Interpretation with Dilated CNNs

Manfred Eppe, Tayfun Alpay, Fares Abawi, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN), 2018

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@inproceedings{eppe2018analysis,
  title = {{An Analysis of Subtask-Dependency in Robot Command Interpretation with Dilated CNNs}},
  author = {Eppe, Manfred and Alpay, Tayfun and Abawi, Fares and Wermter, Stefan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN)},
  pages = {25--30},
  year = {2018},
  isbn = {978-287587047-6},
}

2015

In-house Alert Sounds Detection and Direction of Arrival Estimation to Assist People with Hearing Difficulties

Mohammad I. Daoud, Mahmoud Al-Ashi, Fares Abawi, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACIS International Conference Computer and Information Science (ICIS), 2015

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@inproceedings{daoud2015house,
  title = {{In-house Alert Sounds Detection and Direction of Arrival Estimation to Assist People with Hearing Difficulties}},
  author = {Daoud, Mohammad I. and Al-Ashi, Mahmoud and Abawi, Fares and Khalifeh, Ala},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/ACIS International Conference Computer and Information Science (ICIS)},
  pages = {297--302},
  year = {2015},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/ICIS.2015.7166609},
}